THE EFFECT OF AROMATHERAPY ON HUMAN BODY TO REDUCE STRESS
Thesis presented in partial fulfillment for the award of the Bachelor in Electrical Engineering (Honors)
UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA
NURUL AMIRAH BINTI MOHD ZULKAFELY FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA
40450 SHAH ALAM SELANGOR
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
With the name of ALLAH Most Gracious Most Merciful
Praises to Allah S.W.T, for the strength and blessing me through out the entire research and completion of this final year project. Praised to Prophet Muhammad S.A.W, his companions and those who are on the path as what he preached upon.
I would like to take this precious opportunity to express my great feelings to my supervisor Prof. Madya Norasimah Khadri and co-supervisor Dr. Rozita Jailani for her kindness, guidance and invaluable suggestions. In addition my thanks goes to Prof. Madya Zunairah Hj Murat and Pn. Ros Shilawani Sheikh Abdul Kadif for his precious ideas and suggestion to realize this project.
I would also like to express my gratitude to my family, for their motivation and constant encouragement. Without them, I don't think I will be where I am today.
Furthermore, i like to my appreciation to all female PALAPES UITM Shah Alam students directly involved during the experimentation and their great cooperation through this project.
Finally, my special thanks to all my fellow friends for their kindness and support. I also dedicated to my mother and my father for their encouragement.
Thank you.
ABSTRACT
This thesis discusses on the analysis of human body aura and classify the effect of human body aura based on aromatherapy to reduce stress using Resonant Field Imaging (RFI) for Female PALAPES ROTU students. The measurements was taken from 20 female respondents on 17 Regions for Health Level and Third Eye Chakra around 5 minute before and after healing aromatherapy. The duration time to exposed the aromatherapy is around 10 minutes. A short interview was carried out with each respondent to confirm the results. In this research, the lavender and roses aroma as an experiment to measure the effect of aromatherapy to reduce stress. The data collected was analyzed by converting the frequency values to colour and score. For Health Level, 70% respondents from lavender aroma have stress improvement, while for roses aroma 60%. However, for comparison on Third Eye Chakra, lavender aroma is dominant in excellent and good categories whereas aromatherapy roses respondent is dominant in moderate and poor categories. It was found that generally the human stress is reduced.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER LIST OF TITLE PAGE
DECLARATION i ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ii
ABSTRACT iii TABLE OF CONTENTS iv
LIST OF FIGURES viii LIST OF TABLES x LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xi
1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Research Background 1
1.2 Problem Statement 2
1.3 Objectives 2 1.4 Scope of Work 2
1.5 Thesis Organization 3
2 LITERATURE REVIEW 4
2.1 Introduction 4 2.2 Stress 8
2.2.1 External and Internal Source 8 2.2.2 Acute and Chronic Stresses 8
2.3 Aromatherapy 9 2.3.1 Lavender's Essential Oil 9
2.3.1.1 Health Benefits of Lavender Essential Oil 10
2.3.2 Rose Essential Oil 12 2.3.2.1 Health Benefit s Rose Essential Oil 12
2.4 Resonant Field Imaging 14
2.4.2 The Electromagnetic Properties of Bioenergy 16 2.4.3 Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Waves 16
2.5 The Aura 17 2.5.1 Psychological level 17
2.5.1.1 Left Body Bioenergy Analysis 18 2.5.1.2 Right Body Bioenergy Analysis 18 2.5.1.3 Cerebral Bioenergy Analysis 18 2.5.1.4 Chakra Bioenergy Analysis 18
2.5.2 Health Level 19 2.5.3 Third Eye Chakra 19
METHODOLOGY 20 3.1 Flowchart 20 3.2 Interview Session 22 3.3 RFI Measurement 22
3.3.1 RFI Data Collection 23 3.3.2 Health Level 23 3.3.3 Third Eye Chakra 24
3.4 Data Analysis 25
RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS 26 4.1 Analysis of Interviews 26
4.1.1 Current Emotion 26 4.1.2 Stress Level Before Healing Lavender Aroma 27
4.1.3 Stress Level After Healing Lavender Aroma 27 4.1.4 Stress Level Before Healing Roses Aroma 28 4.1.5 Stress Level After Healing Roses Aroma 28 4.2 Data Analysis On Energy Field Score For Each Respondent 29
4.2.1 Health Level 29 4.2.2 Third Eye Chakra 31
